Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several woodland plants of the genus Hepatica of the buttercup family, especially H. americana of eastern North America, having three-lobed leaves and white or lavender flowers. Hepaticas are sometimes classified in the genus Anemone.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The liverleaf, Anemone Hepatica (Hepatica triloba). The old genus Hepatica of Dillenius may be regarded as a subgenus of Anemone.
- noun Any liverwort; a cryptogamic plant of the family Hepaticœ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.
- noun (bot.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticæ; -- called also
scale moss andliverwort . SeeHepaticæ , in the Supplement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the herbaceous plants in the
genus Hepatica of thebuttercup family, notably thecommon hepatica .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a common liverwort
- noun any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Examples
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Oh, but someone says, the hepatica is the first flower of spring; all the nature writers say so.
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The hepatica is the first flower of the Canadian spring: it gladdens us with its tints of azure, pink, and white, early in April, soon after the snows have melted from the earth.
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Well, my dear, there are two harbingers of spring in this area, one is the trillium and the other is the hepatica.
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I bent to examine something peeking out from under dried grasses: a rare delicate hepatica.
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I bent to examine something peeking out from under dried grasses: a rare delicate hepatica.
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Mom, did you know that the hepatica is one of the first flowers of spring?
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Well, my dear, there are two harbingers of spring in this area, one is the trillium and the other is the hepatica.
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During one of my lectures, the question arose as to why beef is not prohibited, although a cow can be infected with the dangerous liver fluke Fasciola hepatica.
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Mom, did you know that the hepatica is one of the first flowers of spring?
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